Word: mooned
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...held her own with Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, her movie debut. While she has worked steadily ever since (in nearly three dozen feature films), great roles have eluded her. Except for her rich performance as a frustrated 1960s housewife in A Walk on the Moon (1999), much of her recent work has been confined to supporting roles. Back in 1984 she tripped up her transition to better parts by turning down the comedy Splash, which became a hit. ("I was insecure about the nudity involved in playing a mermaid," she says.) Another big break, Francis Ford Coppola...
...Westerns. Race movies were counterfeit white movies - faux-ofay. And though the producers surely didn't intend to offend their customers, black-cast pictures flaunted racial stereotypes: idle bucks spending the rent money on dice games and numbers policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar G. Ulmer and written by his wife Shirley, a brassy woman at a wedding reception announces, "When I get married again, I'm gonna marry me a real high-yaller. He may beat me, but I know my good home-cookin' will...
...While the Cape Town section is by far the best written and most gripping, Asian readers will likely fixate on the nearly 40 pages tracking the E seekers' journey to Bangkok, Ko Samui and Ko Phangnga. The Thai speed pills known as yaba, full moon raves and the Oriental Hotel are all referenced, but more insightful are Aitkenhead's observations about sex tourism and the psychology of farangs who consort with Thai hookers. Indeed, one of the most humorous exchanges occurs when Decca's husband and another Englishman argue over whether the ladies should be called "bar girls" or "prostitutes...
Rides, provided by Fun Ventures, Inc., will include the Rocky Mountain Climb, Whirly Bird, Gyro, Bouncy Boxing, Human Bowling and Moon Walk. Other attractions include a tattooist, table magicians and a train that will circulate around the area...
Because faculty and staff and their families have been invited to Springfest, the Lowell courtyard—with rides such as the Mini Moon Bouncer and Willy the Whale—will be devoted to children...